David Ellison

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Bloomberg Talks · David Ellison Talks Media Deal Making at Bloomberg Screentime · 9 Oct 2025 podcast

We have 80 million streaming subscribers.

We have one of the best, basically, content libraries in existence, which is Paramount and CBS.

And I also think you need to distinguish when you talk about the linear business, right?

There's cable, which, yes, has been in decline.

But if you look at CBS, it actually is a remarkable asset that's been number one in primetime for 17 straight seasons, incredible sports rights, which we're growing, and is still highly...

highly profitable cashflow perspective.

And I agree with you has not been run in the best manner for the last 15 years.

And for me, that's all opportunity and opportunity to really reignite the creative content engines, to navigate the transition that's required to really turn Paramount plus into a leader in streaming.

And we believe we have the ability to both winning content and also become the most technologically capable media company to effectively navigate this transition.

We always looked at, you can look at the music business 10 years ago.

We believe we can navigate that.

We also really looked at where traditional tech companies were, call it 10, 15 years ago.

And there was a period of time where the Microsofts of the world, the Oracles of the world were being disrupted.

And those companies that actually disrupted themselves and transitions are now trading at all-time highs.

We believe we have the opportunity to do the same thing.

Absolutely.

So look, one of the things we really believed in, like what I'll say, we're nine weeks in.

and i'm really proud of the momentum the team has been able to build over the last nine weeks one of the things we really believe being the first owned and operated studio to my knowledge since actually walt disney built his own shop was that we would have the opportunity to really think long term that means long-term partnerships with talent where you can basically say don't just think about your next movie or your next show we want to build a relationship with you over a decade and actually say we're going to make your next four or five movies your next four or five series and really think long term and invest for long-term growth

The great news when you look at we had to win in content, I think we're well on our way to being able to do that.

If you look at specifics, right, we're able to get the obviously the UFC deal is one of the first things we announced when we came over.

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